Jewish Philosophy

When It Comes to Judaism’s Claims to the Truth, Jews Don’t Have to Choose between Maimonides and Judah Halevi

Hardware, software, and love.

Shai Held
July 20 2022 12:01AM

Shlomo Pines: The Jewish Philosopher Who Presupposed Nothing

Even at the Hebrew University at mid-century, when the likes of Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem walked the halls, Pines stood out for his prodigious knowledge of everything.

Warren Zev Harvey
May 31 2022 12:01AM

Jewish Thinkers’ Fatal Attraction to an Anti-Semitic Philosopher

Martin Heidegger, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Leo Strauss.

Steven Aschheim
Oct. 13 2021 12:01AM

Why the Hebrew Bible Belongs in Philosophy Courses

Reason met revelation in Athens as well as Jerusalem.

Dru Johnson
June 21 2021 12:01AM

The Last Great Medieval Jewish Philosopher’s Reflections on the Meaning of Passover

Reenacting the first stirrings of our love of God.

Roslyn Weiss
March 30 2021 12:01AM

What Can Judaism Learn from Analytic Philosophy?

A renaissance of Jewish theology.

Cole Aronson
Jan. 12 2021 12:01AM

Mourning the Loss of Four Great Scholars of Jewish Ideas

And understanding the two rival forms of religious Zionism.

Warren Zev Harvey
Nov. 16 2020 12:01AM

When a Medieval Jewish Philosopher Wrote a Treatise for a Muslim Governor

Ibn Kammuna’s Abrahamic philosophical piety.

Alan Brill and Tzvi Langermann
May 14 2020 12:01AM

To One Jewish Philosopher, the Coronavirus Epidemic Demonstrates Humanity’s Vulnerability—and Its Moral Potential

Some theological and political reflections.

Moshe Halbertal
May 7 2020 12:01AM

In Accepting Aristotle’s Ethical Doctrines, Did Maimonides Contradict the Jewish Idea of Repentance?

The conflicting ideals of virtue and law.

Abraham Socher
Sept. 26 2017 12:01AM

Placing Moses Maimonides and Saadiah Gaon in the Context of Islamic Aristotelianism

A question of influence or of a common culture?

Peter Adamson
Nov. 17 2016 12:01AM

The Dangers of Reading Too Little, or Too Much, into the Hebrew Bible

A philosopher’s approach.

Kenneth Seeskin
Oct. 13 2016 12:01AM

A Jewish Charity Devoted to Helping Women Meets an Unlikely Source of Opposition

Moving beyond the abortion debate.

Mona Charen
Sept. 16 2016 12:01AM

Saadiah Gaon: Founding Father of Hebrew Linguistics and Jewish Theology

The legacy of a 10th-century sage.

Richard Baroff
March 3 2016 12:01AM
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